Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-27
inter STATE COMMERCE BILL.

mon carrier or carriers engaged IN the
transportation Of passengers orproperty
wholly by railroad, or partly by rail-
road and partly by water when both are
used. under o common control, manage
ment, or arrangement, for n contin-
nous carriage or shipment, from one
State or Territory Of the United
States or the District OF Columbia, TO
United States, or the District OF Colum-
bis, or from any place in the United
States to an adjacent foreign country, or
from any place in the United States
through a foreign country TO any other
place in the United States, and also 20
The transportation in ike manner OF
property shipped from any place in the
United States to a foreign country and
carried from such place TO a port OF
transshipment, or shipped from for
eign country to any place in the United
States and carried 10 such place from
port of entry either in'the United States
or an adjacent foreign country: Pro-
gided, hOpcccr, that the provisions OF
this act shall not apply to the transpor-
tation of passengers 0r property, or to
the receiving, delivering, storage, or
handling Of property, wholly within one
State, and not shipped to OF from
foreign country from or to any State or
Territory as aforesaid.
The term "railroad as used in this
act shall include all bridges and ferries
used or operated in connection with
any railroad, and also oil the roads in
use by any corporation operating rail-
road, whether owned or operated under
q contract. agreement, or lease and
the term " transportation shall include
all instrumentahties Of shipment or car
riagc.
All charges made for any service rem
dered or 10 be rendered in the transpor-
tation of passengersor property as afore-
said, or in connection herewith, or for
the receiving delivery, storage, or hand
ling ofsuch property, shall be reasonable
and just, and every unjust, unreasona-
BILE charge for such service is prohibited
and declared TO be unlawful.
Section 2. That if any common car
rier subject to the provisions of this act
shall, directly or indirectly, by any
special rate, rebate, drawback, or other
device, charge, demand. collect, or re-
eeive from any person or persons
greater or less compensation for any
service rendered. or to be rendered, in
the transportation OF passengers or
property, subject to the provisions of
this act, than it charges, demands, col
lects, or receives from any other per-
son or persons for doing for him or
them a like and contemporaneous
service in the transportation of like
kind of traffic under substantially SINH
lar circumstances and conditions, such
common carrier shall be deemed guilty
of unjust discrimination, which is
hereby prohibited Nnd declared to be
unlawful.
Section 3. That it shall be unlawful
for any common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act to make or give
any undue or unreasonable preference
or advantage to any particular person,
company, firm, corporation, or locality,
or any particular description of traffic,
in any respect whatsoever, or to subject
any particular person, company, firm,
corporation, or locality, or any particu
lar description of traffic, to any undue
or unreasonable prejudice or disadyan-
tage in any respect whatsoever.
Every common carrier subject to the |
provisions of this act shall, according
TO their respective powers, afford all
reasonable, proper, and equal facilities
for the interchange of traffic between |
their respective lines, and for the re-
ceiving, forwarding, and delivering of |
passengers and property to and from |
their several lines and those connecting |
herewith, and shall not discriminate in |
their rates and charges between such
connecting lines but this shall not be |
construed as requiring any such COM
mon carrier to give the use of its tracks |
or terminal facilities to another carrier
engaged in like business.
Section 4. That ii shall be unlawful
for any common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act to charge or re-
ceive any greater compensation in the
aggregate for the transportation of pas
sengers or of like kind OF property. I'M
der substantially similar circumstances
and conditions, for a shorter than for |
longer distance over the same line, in |
the same direction, the shorter being |
included within the longer distance
but this shall not be construed as au
thoriZing any common carrier within |
the terms of this act to charge and re-
ceive as great compensation for a short
or as for longer distance ProUided, |
ho,ceUer, That upon application to the
commission appointed under the pro-
visions of this act such common carrier
may, in special cases, after investiga-
ton by the commission, be authorized |
to charge less for longer than for shorter
distances for the transportation of pas
sengers or property; and the commits
sion may from time to time prescribe |
the extent to which such designated |
common carrier may be relieved from !
the operation of this section of this |
act.
Section 8. That it shall be unlawful |
for any common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act TO enter into any |
contract, agreement, or combination
with any other common carrier or car
riers for the pooling OF freights of diff
ferent and competing railroads, or to
divide between them the aggregate or
net proceeds Of the earnings of such
railroads, or any portion thereof, and
In any case of an agreement for the
pooling of freights as aforesaid each
day OF its continuance shall be deemed
separate offence.
Section 6. That every common carrier
subject TO the provisions of this act
shall print and Keep for public inspec-
ton schedules showing the rates and
fares and charges for the transportation
Of passengers and property which any
such common carrier has established
and which are in force at the time upon
its railroad, as defined by the first sec
ton OF this act. The schedules printed
as aforesaid by any such common car
rier shall plainly state the places upon
its railroad between which property
and passengers will be carried, and shall
contain the classification of freight in
force upon such railroad. and shall also
state separately the terminal charges
and any rules or regulations which in
any wise change, affect, or determine
any part OF the aggregate of such afore-
said rates and fares and charges Such
schedules shall be plainly printed in
large type, Of at least the size of ordi-
nary plea, and copies for the use OF the
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